As Good As It Gets

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

You can see in this short film that by 1918 Harold Lloyd dug deep within himself to deliver a personality that affords us entry into his humanity. There is a totality of character in his offering in this film, and it suggests that he spent many hours alone with the scenario trying to familiarize himself with the glasses character and understand him in a potent way. Watching him evolve from Lonesome Luke into the glasses character is a study in character development itself. The only other comedian that surpasses him at this point in terms of richness of character is Chaplin. Buster Keaton pales into insignificance as far as I'm concerned.